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kellyrfineman

ALA 2010, part one

Jun 30, 2010 00:12

I arrived in D.C. on Friday afternoon, where (as I posted in brief the other day), I met Tricia Stohr-Hunt (from The Miss Rumphius Effect) and Laura Purdie Salas. We caught up and spiffed up and then headed off to meet Sara Lewis Holmes and Liz Garton Scanlon for dinner at Jaleo, a tapas-style restaurant owned by - five out of seven of the Poetry ( Read more... )

conferences, stohr-hunt, ala, scanlon, davis, salas, holmes

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jbknowles June 30 2010, 11:07:58 UTC

Great photos! Sounds wonderful. :-)

kellyrfineman June 30 2010, 14:12:49 UTC

I was wishing you were there for parts of it. Especially at the Newbery/Caldecott banquet, when a young DC librarian named Sylvie ended up at the table with us. I believe you know who she is already, and she was a wonderful person in real life.

bogwitch64 June 30 2010, 12:59:04 UTC

Sounds like a LOT of fun!

kellyrfineman June 30 2010, 14:13:08 UTC

It was!

lectitans June 30 2010, 13:04:06 UTC

I'm so sorry I missed the entire kidlitosphere. It was just such a big place and so busy and I was so exhausted all the time. (I'm taking an online class now, too, so most evenings were spent in the hotel doing homework!)

Now that I've done one, I hope the next one I come to I'll be more comfortable finding people and hanging out. Glad you had fun!

kellyrfineman June 30 2010, 14:14:09 UTC

It was ginormous, wasn't it? And crowded. And loud. I'm sorry I missed you, but we will manage to meet one of these days!

jeannineatkins June 30 2010, 13:08:26 UTC

Kelly, great photos and you all do look fantastic! Poetry may have never looked so good. I love the phrase WWJD and can't wait for your report on Tanita's speech. Thank you for taking that picture of Borrowed Names, which made my day, and I borrowed to put on my blog.

I would have loved to have been at ALA, but it's a whole lot of fun, too, to hear about it! Thanks!

kellyrfineman June 30 2010, 14:15:30 UTC

Tanita's speech. Oh my. I don't know that I can do it justice.

It was a wild and crazy sort of place. You could spend half an hour and see nobody you knew, and in the next ten minutes you might find more people than you could possibly catch up with in a week!

dotificus June 30 2010, 13:24:23 UTC

Also, woo! I don't have anything of substance to add, besides great pics! I chime in with my own chimey version of "looks like fun!"

kellyrfineman June 30 2010, 14:16:06 UTC

Love that chime/chimey bit, Dot - you are too funny!